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A Specimen of Colloquial Sinhalese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

In the following text an attempt has been made to represent as accurately as possible the speech of Mr. H. Perera, a form of speech which we believe to be fairly typical of that of the educated Sinhalese of Colombo. The form of speech here recorded is that used in familiar conversation and will be found to differ greatly from the literary or semi-literary language of the ordinary textbook

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1921

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